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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Virgil A. Stewart happened to be in the right place at the right time. In January 1834, he offered to help a friend in Madison County, Tennessee track down two missing slaves who were believed to have been stolen by a local thief named John A. Murrell. Posing as a man looking for a lost horse, Stewart won Murrell's confidence over the course of several days and the thief shared with him stories of his exploits and revealed various criminal acts he had committed, including robbery, slave stealing, and murder. Murrell also admitted to being the leader of a vast criminal empire with one thousand members-some of whom were well-respected men in their communities-known as the Mystic Clan of the Confederacy. He wanted to convince slaves across the South to rise up against their masters on Christmas night in 1835, during which time Murrell and his clan would rob on a grand scale. History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrel, the Great Western Land Pirate.To Which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Mr. Virgil A. Stewart was first published in 1835, and is the primary source for the life, crimes, and legend of John A. Murrell, a man Stewart labeled 'the great Western Land Pirate.' Stewart transformed a petty thief from Denmark, Tennessee into a criminal mastermind with a network of like-minded rogues that stretched across the Old Southwest.…

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Portrait frontispiece, 5 plates. [ii],[17]-84, [iii]-[xiii]. 1 vols. 8vo. This famous, but misunderstood, American outlaw narrative was actually taken from the papers of Virgil Stewart, a willing participant in Murrell's plans. Stewart raised the spectre of Murrell as a mass murderer and, more frightening for the antebellum South, the ringleader of a slave uprising. However, Murrell was really a much simpler con man: he persuaded slaves to run away, then resold them into slavery elsewhere. The roman numbered pages at the end are a sample of J. J. Thompson's A History of the Feud Between the Hill and Evans parties of Garrard County, KY. The date of this edition is a matter of much question, with Howes not dating it at all, Adams implying that it may have preceded the Lexington and Athens editions of 1835, and Sabin estimating its publication at c. 1850. However, Howes also dates Thompson's work advertised in this edition at 1854. In any case, it is evidently rare. Howes W 76; Adams Six-Guns (2nd ed.) 2301; Cohen 14041 (note); Sabin 101209 Original wrappers. Extremities a little rubbed, but still a very good copy Portrait frontispiece, 5 plates. [ii],[17]-84, [iii]-[xiii]. 1 vols. 8vo.…